Download PDF here Tomorrow is the Caravan 4 Citizenship to Bakersfield–a massive grassroots action that will see hundreds of cars and thousands of advocates converge on Bakersfield, California in order to make their voices heard on immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. Bakersfield is the home of Rep....
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New Orleans–heretofore famous in the immigration reform world for the deportation proceedings of the Southern 32–this week is making immigration headlines in a much more positive way by announcing that it will effectively suspend Secure Communities. Among other things, Secure Communities requests that police send the fingerprints of those...
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Anti-Immigrant Event Targeting Cantor and Featuring Steve King Fizzles; Event in McCarthy’s District Promoted by Pro-Reform Movement Set for Tomorrow Will Sizzle For all the talk of the vaunted anti-immigrant movement’s ability to mobilize opposition to comprehensive immigration reform, their big event in Richmond, VA yesterday turned out to...
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Steve King held what was supposed to be a major rally against immigration reform yesterday in Richmond, Virginia. Nobody came, but that didn’t stop him from spouting more of his usual anti-immigrant babble. In particular, he attacked immigrants from Latin America and claimed that populations get more violent the...
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Huffington Post (Blog): How Steve King Became an Ally of Immigration Reform By Frank Sharry Washington Post: New flashpoint: Push to legalize children of illegal immigrants By David Nakamura ThinkProgress: Congressman Says Giving DREAMers A Path To Citizenship But Deporting Their Parents Is A ‘Compassionate Solution’ By Esther Yu-His...
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It’s Monday, which means that another weekend has just gone by in which immigration reform advocates all over the country turned out to make their voices heard in favor of immigration reform. We’re square into August recess now–the time of year when legislators go home to meet with constituents,...
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The demographics in two southern states that have been safe bastions for the GOP are changing. And those changes will impact elections and the immigration reform. Virginia is considered a purple state at the presidential level. In 2012, President Obama carried the state and former Governor Tim Kaine was...
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The Senate’s leading anti-immigrant voice, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), predicted to the New York Times in June, “The longer it lays in the sun, the more it smells, as they say about the mackerel.” Sessions’ pungent quote was in reference to the immigration legislation which at that point was pending in the Senate, prior to...
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